{"id":26018,"date":"2023-07-11T23:45:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T05:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=26018"},"modified":"2023-07-12T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T14:33:09","slug":"my-20s-and-30s-were-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/my-20s-and-30s-were-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Fog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1920\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1080 \/ 1920;\" width=\"1080\" controls src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/VID_29420422_095106_643.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Such a helpful insight from Becky Craven on Instagram today!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my journals from the busiest years of my life, I often expressed frustration because I struggled to concentrate during my personal prayers. In one journal, I  used the pages to write out my prayers, thinking that this would improve my focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wish that I had understood that some of those thoughts that snuck into my mind during my seemingly unfocused prayers were God&#8217;s way of reaching me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, I understand now that during those elemental prayers, which were scattered and pleading, I was actually creating a relationship with God because I was being real. He didn&#8217;t want a formal structure as much as He just wanted to hear from me. My prayers were effective, and I didn&#8217;t know it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, today I encourage you to keep praying through the frustration and fog. We may not see it now, but heaven is closer and more helpful than we can imagine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my journals from the busiest years of my life, I often expressed frustration because I struggled to concentrate during my personal prayers. In one journal, I used the pages to write out my prayers, thinking that this would improve my focus. I wish that I had understood that some of those thoughts that snuck &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2023\/07\/my-20s-and-30s-were-like-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prayer Fog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,36,20,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-jesus-christ","category-life-according-to-angela","category-motherhood","category-promptings-of-the-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26018"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26039,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26018\/revisions\/26039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}